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Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad Roommate
- Ian Frisch
- May 18, 2026
The wildfires that would come to engulf Los Angeles had just begun to burn when Frankee Grove finally admitted to herself that she needed a roommate....
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Disco Elysium’s spiritual successor can’t escape its phantoms
- Diego Nicolás Argüello
- May 18, 2026
Zero Parades: For Dead Spies wants you to question the price of forgiveness. After leading a crew of spies through a failed operation, protagonist Cas...
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A Danish Couple’s Maverick African Research Finds Its Moment in RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Policy
- Arthur Allen, KFF Health News
- May 18, 2026
The work of Peter Aaby and Christine Stabell Benn has long been controversial. Until Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became US health policy chief, most vaccine...
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Microsoft is retiring Teams’ Together Mode
- Terrence O’Brien
- May 17, 2026
Microsoft launched Teams' Together Mode during the pandemic to give the illusion of a bunch of people sitting in a conference room together, even if t...
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Revamped Siri will reportedly offer auto-deleting chats
- Terrence O’Brien
- May 17, 2026
Apple is hoping that its record on privacy can be the differentiator on the AI front, and maybe even buy it a little slack as it continues to lag behi...
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University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt’s AI cheerleading during commencement
- Terrence O’Brien
- May 17, 2026
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt delivered the commencement address at the University of Arizona on Friday. And, as his speech veered into talk of AI, h...
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Oddity is masterfully tense horror from the director of Hokum
- Terrence O’Brien
- May 17, 2026
Hokum recently hit theaters, and it's already outperforming box office expectations. If this Kubrick-referencing haunted hotel flick starring Adam Sco...
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ElliQ is a surprisingly helpful companion robot for older adults
- Sheena Vasani
- May 17, 2026
A week before the ElliQ robot arrived, a neurologist told me we need to rebalance my mom's life. Her Parkinson's disease medication had steadily becom...
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Fujifilm’s X Half is even more whimsical with a $300 price cut
- Cameron Faulkner
- May 17, 2026
Fujifilm’s X Half digital camera wasn’t designed to replace your main camera, though you’d be forgiven for assuming it was with its ludicrous $850 pri...
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Chatbots at the drive-thru are just the beginning
- Emma Roth
- May 17, 2026
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about how AI is seeping into our daily...
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Snap, YouTube, and TikTok settle suit over harm to students
- Terrence O’Brien
- May 16, 2026
Snap, YouTube, and TikTok have settled the first lawsuit of its kind, alleging that social media addiction has cost public schools massive amounts of...
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Sony tries to explain that its AI Camera Assistant doesn’t suck
- Terrence O’Brien
- May 16, 2026
After Sony drew some unwanted attention for a post demonstrating its AI Camera Assistant on the Xperia 1 XIII, it's trying to clarify how the feature...